Identity Construction and Cultural Adaptation Among Chinese American College Students: A Survey-Based Analysis

The problem of overseas Chinese identity is a hot spot in the field of overseas Chinese research in recent years. It reflects the Chinese’s cognition, emotion, and behavior of ethnic characteristics. This paper takes Chinese college students with American nationality as the research object, visiting universities in North Carolina and California as visiting scholars and doctoral students, and summarizes and analyzes the identity characteristics of contemporary Chinese American college students and puts forward corresponding suggestions through in-depth interviews with 46 Chinese American college students and 12 Chinese families.